This made me realize, talking to people is like forcefully inserting you thoughts into their brain without their consent. People should just stop talking in general IMO.
Hello
Username absolutely does not check out.
Maybe, but our heads don’t need all that space to themselves. Room for 1.25
I also dislike the “hey how are you?”. I understand they want to be friendly, but it only adds another step in the conversational exchange.
“Hey how are you?”
“I’m fine. You?”
“All good”
“Cool”
“[the actual request]”
I think it’s fine, if done with the nohello approach:
Hey , how are you/had a nice weekend? I could use some help with ticket #12345 as I need to do … and don’t know how to do …
But otherwise - yeah, you’re now right at the end of my to do list.
That’s the way it should be done
Same here too, so I just cut to the chase as soon as I answer.
“I’m doing fine, how can I help?”
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People actually do this!?
Yeah, I thinks it’s partly a cultural thing. I’ve seen more indian colleagues do this than anyone else.
It’s definitely more common with my Indian colleagues.
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My boss does this all the time. It’s incredibly annoying.
I’ve dealt with a few of those at work. Super annoying and just wastes everybody’s time.
Oh, they do…
Hey, are you there?
Hello
You there?
That instantly triggers a delay till after the top of the hour for me.
A great one alongside https://dontasktoask.com/
“Hi, can I ask a question?”
No, don’t ask to ask a question.
Somebody message me something along those lines a few weeks ago.
Them: Them can I as a question?
Me: If you must
Anyway, they complained to HR and they had a word with me. Stupid people. If you’re going to be an international company and put your IT department in the UK, prepare for snark.
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Yes, this is exactly how it should be done. You’re leaving room for polite convo but also not needlessly adding a few extra steps in the chat
There’s also https://onlyhello.net/
And I think I recalled “hello considered harmful” and meta stuff like “considered harmful considered harmful”. Or were those on intranet?
When people at work have this as their status I just randomly say hello to them. When they get mad I tell them I just I wanted to say hi.
Last week:
“Hi Neocamel, it’s Tom from work.”
~no follow-up message~
Me, 15 minutes later: “Hi!”
The end.
Well, I usually take my time to reply. It’s not my fault, when people then need to wait until they cut to the chase. That doesn’t bother me. It’s their problem.
Hello…
This is a hello message.
Feel Helloed
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I would tell her, but in a nice way.
I feel like a lot of people map chat to talking on the phone when it isn’t. I’ve had to tell several staff to just get on with it and not wait for a response before getting into the reason why we are talking. Often times, they think they are being polite even though they are being rude
Damn, talk about antisocial and weird.
What if I just want to say hi to start a conversation, and I don’t have some ulterior motive? Or perhaps I’m waiting to gauge the other person’s mood or something else before asking them something?
What a weird, weird thing for this person to get a stick up their arse about. I’m sure they’re really fun to talk to :-/
It’s a written message, not a conversation. State what you want clearly, don’t force other prople to ask you what you want.
